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Days

by | May 13, 2014 | Poems

This hot burning star we move around and hound like a first-lover Found all bound with sunshine gushing down From that that blow-torched perforation in the blue That you want to drink from A drink so strong you can’t … even. But what a drink! You want to...

True to Real

by | Apr 9, 2014 | Poems

  “Wait a minute! Feeling is what saved poor wretched reason right back there at the start! Yes! We have a little caveat for you sleeping dogmas While ever you lie in your rant of cant, husk of elbows and egos We still tend the fires of mythological...

My Most Recent Memory

by | Apr 6, 2014 | Poems

  The next hour comes in quiet And we find ourselves stepping over pretty dolls, soft toys And something left by a cat that played around the edges Of our Grand Children’s stay. Not that they stayed They played and talked and held us in their arms While we...

The Invisible Girl

by | Mar 22, 2014 | Poems

  ‘Why did you forsake me?’* “A good secret is kept old mate Left where she slept last night If you know what I mean.” Yes, but her rope burns were red Like the smash of her head on bathroom tiles In this health-filed, stapled, case-managed department...

Conversation

by | Mar 13, 2014 | Poems

This morning I went for a walk and felt infinite love In the leaves that wavered and the bitumen That stayed firm under my feet And a story that flowed from a voice That spoke of hopes and dreams to be poured out Of its broken heart. So that their young soul would...

Love’s Weak Omnipotence

by | Jan 27, 2014 | Poems

** Sonnet ‘Dieu à établi la prière pour communiquer à ses créatures la dignité de la causalité.’ * The Bible says Sennacherib’s campaign was spoiled By angels: in Herodotus it says, by mice – Innumerably nibbling all one night they...